Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

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    might as well just slap cancer warnings on everything these days. Launch a massive banner to orbit so everywhere can see the cancer warning for the sun. Doctors need to hold a cancer warning sign when a baby is being birthed so it’ll be the first thing they see because you can literally just get cancer for simply living.

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      We may as well flatten the whole planet to eliminate the risk of falling down stairs.

      I hate how far people go to safety pad the whole planet when an ounce of personality responsibility is all that’s needed.

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        Except personal responsibility is impossible when people don’t know that xyz food causes cancer.

        That’s why they’re asking for a label. So that people can make an informed choice. That’s literally their entire point.

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          If the labels don’t have some type of ranking system, then they are pointless. A great example being the California cancer labels that are on fucking everything. It’s impossible to use them to gauge risk, because everything you buy causes cancer in California.

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          It’s also the worlds most addictive chemical, and alarmingly nobody addicted to dihydrogen monoxide has ever been able to overcome that addiction, every dihydrogen monoxide addict dies with a 100% certainty within a few weeks if they stop taking it.

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      Glad you hate science and healthy living. Luckily we have these glow-in-the-dark rocks you can lick - since ‘everything gives you cancer’ I’m sure you won’t feel any compunction about doing so.